31 days of halloween day 25

for the 31 days of halloween I am working on Rolodex cards, one each day in October, each card has a video showing how it was made.

video here
Info about the hop here

#LeighSBDesigns31DaysOfHalloweenBlogHop

Stamps used by Blank Page Muse

31 days of Halloween day 23

31 days of Halloween day 23

or the 31 days of halloween I am working on Rolodex cards, one each day in October,

 each card has a video showing how it was made.

video here

Info about the hop here

#LeighSBDesigns31DaysOfHalloweenBlogHop

Stamps: Tim Holtz, Stampers Anonymous

31 days of Halloween day 14

another one


you know the drill


video here

info on the 31 days of Halloween hop

#LeighSBDesigns31DaysOfHalloweenBlogHop

31 days of Halloween ; day 13

day 13

This page in my journal turned out pretty cool I think :-)

 Products used:  Deco Art Americana Stencils : Segmented Swirls, Radical Rays and the Snakes web by andy Skinner. Deco Art Americana Acrylics in: Neon Light green energy and Radiant Yellow, Snow White, Lamp Black, Teal Mint. Deco Art Glass paint marker in white. Deco Art americana Multisurface neon pink and Decoupage napkin. The skull is a Rick St.dennis digi he comes in a set with cool skull images you can find it here

 first the page was painted pink and next the stencils and paints were used to get this effect, The skull is coloured using alcohol markers an cut out and glued to the page using Decou page napkin.  The quote is written using a white glass paint marker by Deco Art

And a tag for the junk journal, background is bisters and the images a a mix of rubber and clear stamps

this is how it looks in the book

Going green part 2

Time for more Minion inspiration for our Going Green Challenge  at Haunted Design House,  so  either use the colour green in your project, or go green by recycling, green eyed envie monster ......well I guess you get the idea, just nothing cutesy green, we love to see your darkside of crafting.

Deco Art products used :
Americana Acrylics in Lamp Black, Neon Thermal Green, Sorching Yellow, Gesso, Weatered Wood and Americana multi surface acrylic in orange.

Creepmas day 11

Welcome to day 11 of Creepmas, organized by Smeared Ink, you can find the blogroll in the sidebar

Today a page in my leatherbound journal :-), love to work in it but hard to take a good picture

I used Witch Tree digi stamp by Rick St. dennis coloured using Prismacolor pencils and cut out.

Deco Art products used for the background: Americana Acrylic Gesso, Modeling paste, Americana Pearlizing medium. Glamour Dust Glitter paint in Turquoise Sparkle and Purple Passion. Americana Mixed media stencil Aztec pattern. Deco Art Tradtions in Naphthol red light, Carbon black, Ultramarine Blue, red Violet,

I bought this journal at Barnes and Noble in Santa Monica, and althoug the paper is thin it works great with paint.  I did bacecous this page with gesso and then mixed ultramarine traditons paint with pearlizing medium to get some shimmer in the paint, I painted the page blue and added the patterns in Naphthol red light and red violet. I used stencils for that.  Then I mixed modeling paste wiht the glamour dust in purple and used the bubble stencil. Let the modeling paste dry and added the turquise sparkle. I used some carbon black mixed with water to wash over the page to make it less bright.
You can still see the shimmer through the black wash.

Glued the digi on and wrote the senti, it is by Jack Skelington :-) (Nightmare before Christmas)

here a pic to show you the texture by the modeling paste

just a quick post

things are a bit hectic here, so only a quick post with some coloured Rick St.dennis digital images to show you

Goddess of moonlight and evening fog , coloured using Spectrum Noir Blendable pencils

the Duchess  also SN pencils

Mystique again SN pencils

Death and the maiden coloured using Caran d'ache Luminance 6901 pencils

this will be my last blog post for a while, will be doing some traveling coming 5 weeks, see you all later

thanks for visiting my bloggie , have a great summer.


O and a little experiment, a drawing by me :-) using my caran d'aches

I had fun drawing this rooster, not perfect but I liked doing it

31 days of Halloween day 29

Welcome to day 29 of the 31 days of Halloween organized by Smeared and Smudged,
blogroll is in the side bar.
I am also a Cryptkeeper in the Halloween countdown 2013, for the complete list of 192 Cryptkeepers joining the countdown to Halloween, see link here


a cutsey witch page, the image is Hannah Halloween, by Rick St.Dennis, backgound gelli plate print, using Deco Arts Americana Acrylics (Carrousel Pink, Calypso blue, sour apple). Senti from the internet

see you for day 30

31 days of Halloween day 23 and a GDT

Welcome to day 23of the 31 days of Halloween organized by Smeared and Smudged,
blogroll is in the side bar.
I am also a Cryptkeeper in the Halloween countdown 2013, for the complete list of 192 Cryptkeepers joining the countdown to Halloween, see link here



Rick St Dennis is sponsoring the challenge at THE CRAFTER'S CAFE CHALLENGE BLOG theme is  spookable, and I made this card for them as a GDT.

 

The witch is a Rick St. Dennis rubber stamp available at I Brake for Stamps, the background are Lost coast designers srtamps , the background is coloured using distress ink

 

As an extra project for today I have a cute little canvas.

 

 

All producsts used are Deco Art

First gessoed the canvas, then added a layer of Spiced Pumpkin Americana Acrylic paint. Used Weathered wood crackle medium and the top layer is Americana acrylic paint in lamp black .

The skull is made using a Panduro stencil and Deco Art modeling paste.

Then painted the modeling paste with Americana acrylic Purple Pizazz. And finished with Glamour dust glitter paint colour purple princess.

Added some rhinestones to give it what extra bling

 

see you for day 24

 

31 days of halloween day 6

This is day 6 of 31 days of Halloween (for details click linkie)  organized by Smeared and Smudged. Blogroll in the sidebar

And I am also a Cryptkeeper in the countdown to Halloween, see the list of the other 192 participants here

I have a canvas to show you,
First prepare the canvas using Primer/sealer, then I used Americana acrylic paint to paint the canvas  Red,  and added a layer of Weathered Wood crackle medium, top layer is lamp black  americana arvylic paint.  Then a layer of matte varnish to protect the crackle.
Next I cut a stencil using my Cricut (the witch silouette from Happy Haunting cart). and used Texture crackle in DeepTuscan Red  (all products are Deco Art).

The spiderweb is a Martha Stewart punch, black cardstock and Metallic Lustre silver spark, to finish I added some rhinestones

 

and a  little bonus project (have to stop doing this, I will end up making 62 Halloween things this way LOL)

The card is made using the vintage cabinet card die from Tim Holz.

The masked lady is a rubber stamp designe by Rick St. Dennis and you can get yours at I Brake for Stamps here.

 

The barbed wire is also a rubber stamp and the bats are made using a punch.

Background is distress ink

 

 

Getting quite a collection of Halloween projects, so thought to put them on the mantel , more will follow, lots of days to go.....

 

 

see you for day 7.

 

I will enter the canvas in the following challenge

 

 

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.nl/2013/09/hdh-177-macabre-monday-dimensional.html

 some more dimension for ya  LOL

 

http://punkyougirl.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/challenge-5-halloween.html

31 days of halloween day 2 and a GDT

This is day 2 of31 days of Halloween (for details click linkie)  organized by Smeared and Smudged. Blogroll in the sidebar

And I am also a Cryptkeeper in the countdown to Halloween, see the list of the other 192 participants here

For this post I will show you the AJ page that is also the GDT piece for the Crafters Cafe, Rick St.Dennis is sponsoring this challenge. check it our there are RSD digi's to win.

The image used is Withcie Burlesque a Rick St.Dennis digi, the back ground is again a Gelli print using Deco Art Americana Acrylic paint (Hauser Light green, Tomato red,  orange, lemon yelllow, purple cow)

 

 

have fun hopping and leaving some bloggie love is much appreciated

 

see you tomorrow for day 3

 

Wicked

Hi all, I am back again from France, had a great time but did miss blogging so today I thought to try out some of my new goodies.

The Rick St. Dennis Halloween rubber stamps from I Brake for Stamps, some DecoArt Americana Acrylic and, Glamour dust glitter paint  also Decoart. Also decided to use Americana crackle medium Weathered Wood.

first a pic and then I will tell you what I did.

I took a piece of cardboard and gesso-ed it. Then painted a base coat of Spiced Pumpkin (Da310) I wanted to use the Glamour Dust glitter neon orange (DGD24) but the gesso came through so that's why I added the Spiced Pumpkin first and then the glamour dust glitter neon orange, that turned out really cool, very neon and very glittery :-).

Then a layer of Weathered Wood crackle medium, let dry and added the top layer Purple Pizzazz (DA302), dried it using my heat gun and watched the crackle go. Then I added another layer of Weathered Wood on a part of the purple, let dry and made the top coat Hauser Light green(DA 131) and let it crack again.

I thought it looked nice but I wanted some bigger pieces of the neon orange  to show through and sanded some pieces until the neon orange was visible. The cool thing is it's very glittery but that's  always hard to see in the pic, hope you can see though.

 

Stamped  the Witchy and coloured her, cut her out and glued her to the cardboard.

 

Then painted the swirls (Tim Holz die) using Glamour Dust Glitter Purple Princess (DGD 22) let dry and glued on the card.

 

 

 

The broom is made using a twig from our garden and some rope and a piece of wire. (unraffel the rope, make it wet and straighten it and let dry. Once dried it stays straight.

Use the wire to attache the rope to the twig, super easy)

To finish I added a small bull clip, a ribbon, a flower and some pins, The quote is from the Wicked song Defying Gravity .

 

 

that's  it, hope you like

 

I will enter this in the following challenges

http://hobbycutzchallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/08/challenge-13-create-your-own-background.html

 

http://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2013/08/n-for-newest-stamp-or-decoupage.html

 

http://cardcrafterscircle.blogspot.nl/2013/08/challenge-89-bright-colours.html

 

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.ca/  challenge 13

 

http://arandomthursdaychallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/08/art-11-anything-goes-guest-designer.html

 

http://craftyribbonschallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/08/challenge-58_22.html

 

http://craftingbydesigns.blogspot.nl/2013/08/mixed-media-challenge.html

 

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.nl/2013/08/hdh174-macabre-monday-nailed-it.html  ok no nails and no blood, just pins ans sorta cute :-)

 

 

Halloween wishes

I have made another art journal page, I am really having fun playing with my Gelli Plate,  This time I also used my Cricut to cut out stencils. See the spiderwebb that's  from the 31 rst october cartridge, just cut it out and
use as stencil. I did the same to make the swirly background, that's on  the storybook cartridge. 

here is Winsome Witch she is a Rick St. Dennis digi

 

this is what I used

 

I willenter the followin challenges

 

http://www.craftdoormagazine.com/2013/07/ttcrd-july-23-july-29-challenge.html

 

http://partytimetuesdays.blogspot.nl/2013/07/ptt131-anything-goes.html

Miss Hagatha Crone

I made anothre AJ page using a Rick St. Dennis image, this witch is called miss Hagatha Crone and she is only available at I Brake for Stamps

I think i am addicted, i had so much fun colouring and playing with paint. The quotes are so much fun to write too, here the pics

 

I will enter this in the following challenges

http://haunteddesignhouse.blogspot.nl/2013/07/hdh171-macabre-monday-freakers-free-for.html

 

http://thecraftbarnblog.blogspot.nl/2013/07/alphadictionary-challenge-letter-y.html  (Y for  YIKES!!!  and the yellow is in the bubble wrap print, and ofcourse the teeth and the nails of  the witch)

 

http://leftofcenterchallenges.blogspot.nl/2013/07/left-of-center-challenge-10-loc-theme.html

 

http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/speedy-fox-and-friends-challenge-168.html  technique : Mixed media